#TopTenTuesday April Showers #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

Untitled design (1)This week’s topic is April Showers. We’re invited to create a list of books that have anything to do with rain: in their title, on their cover or in their storyline. My list comprises book titles involving rain, the lack of it or weather conditions associated with rain.  

The Rain Never Came by Lachlan Walter
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
Umbrella by Will Self
Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes
The Storm by Amanda Jennings
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
The Night of the Flood by Zoe Somerville

#TopTenTuesday From Page to Screen #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Movies/TV Shows That Would Have Made Amazing Books, a topic suggested by Sabrina at Notes From a Paper Plane Nomad. It’s a neat twist on the topic ‘books that have been made into films’ but, not for the first time recently, it had me stumped, not least because I don’t watch that much TV or many films. So my list is made up of some of my favourite film adaptations of books. You’ll note that a lot of these are older versions – I’m not a great fan of remakes!

  1. The Cruel Sea (1953) based on the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat
  2. Jane Eyre (1943) based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë
  3. Rebecca (1940) based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier
  4. The Remains of the Day (1993) based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
  5. Scrooge (1951) based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  6. Great Expectations (1946) based on the novel by Charles Dickens
  7. Carol (2015) based on The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
  8. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) based on the novel by Harper Lee
  9. The Man Who Never Was (1956) based on the book by Ewen Montagu
  10. Ice Cold in Alex (1958) based on the novel by Christopher Landon